SIX MORE ARE KILLED IN ARKANSAS RIOTS; Governor Brough and Boston Chaplain Have Narrow Escapes from Bullets.4 NEGRO BROTHERS SHOT One Had Killed Alderman Guarding Them--Trouble Traced toSocialist Agitators.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 2.--Scattered clashes today between troops, white posse men, and negroes who have taken refuge in the canebrake country in southern Phillips County, Arkansas, swelled the known death total to sixteen on the second day of the race riots which started yesterday morning at Elaine, Ark. The situation remains tense, but regular army troops are patrolling the section, reinforced by several hundred whites, and the outbreak is believed to be under control.

October 03, 1919

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